There’s an oasis in the heat of the day
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There’s a fire in the chill of night
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A turnabout in circumstance
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Makes each a hell in its own right
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I’ve been boxed-in in the lowlands, in the canyons that think
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I’ve been pushed to the brink of the precipice and dared not to blink
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I’ve been confounded in the whirlwind of what-if's and dreams
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I’ve been burned by the turning of the wind back upon my own flames
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Knock the scales from my eyes
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Knock the words from my lungs
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I want to cry out
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It’s on the tip of my tongue
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I’ve seen through the walls of this kingdom of dust
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Felt the crucial revelation
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But the broad streets of the heart and the day-to-day
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Meet at a blind intersection
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I don’t want to be lonely, I don’t want to feel pain
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I don’t want to draw straws with the sons of Cain
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You can take it as a prayer if you’ll remember my name
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You can take it as the penance of a profane saint
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Knock the scales from my eyes
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Knock the words from my lungs
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I want to cry out
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It’s on the tip of my tongue
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Knock the scales from my eyes
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Knock the words from my lungs
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I want to cry out
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It’s on the tip of my tongue
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There’s an oasis in the heat of the day
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There’s fire in the chill of night
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And when I know them both, I’ll know your love
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I will feel it in the twilight
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Oh, as circumstance comes crashing through my walls like a train
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Or like a chorus from the mountains of the ocean floor
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Like the wind-burst of birdwings taking flight in a hard rain
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Or like a mad dog on the far side of Dante’s door
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Knock the scales from my eyes
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Knock the words from my lungs
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I want to cry out
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It’s on the tip of my tongue
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Knock the scales from my eyes
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Knock the words from my lungs
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I want to cry out
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It’s on the tip of my tongue |